Whatever everyone had been thinking, they certainly put far more effort into the training and battles that followed.
Bai Yaoyao's serious little display hadn't been wasted.
Li Pengliang and the others were no longer fresh-faced university students with innocent eyes and empty heads. They had struggled through years of the apocalypse in their previous life.
They had gone from an unremarkable team of university students to the top independent Special Ability Team in City D Base.
Their past experiences alone could have filled a book.
So they managed the Great Emperor Base strictly according to City D Base's rules. It wasn't called the Great Emperor Base anymore, either.
It had been renamed the Dark Night Affiliated Base.
While they were at it, they had everyone pack up their belongings for a mass relocation.
Everyone moved near the Dark Night Restaurant. That way, the ability users could join the training, while ordinary people could find work. They might not eat well, but at least they wouldn't starve to death.
The people of the Great Emperor Base were naturally willing. Their former base chief had oppressed them terribly. Any family with a decent-looking young man hadn't dared let him go out alone.
Otherwise, he could easily have been violated by the base chief.
Now they were finally free, and their liberators seemed to be upright people from the Authorities. Everyone was willing to listen to whatever they said!
Only those who found a new life after despair could truly cherish it.
As a result, the ability users from the Dark Night Affiliated Base soon surpassed the group Bai Yaoyao had originally brought along.
The discovery made Bai Yaoyao narrow her eyes. She had been too nice to everyone after all...
Without facing trials of life and death, they would never learn to